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1. etc passwd etc group etc profile etc csh login etc PATH etc MANPATH etc auto master etc auto home Typically the files cannot be simply installed as replacements but must be carefully merged with existing files e g to preserve root s password So it may be useful to consider the approach used in the following example root rcp remote host etc passwd etc passwd new rootf diff etc passwd etc passwd new more 1 This excludes sites receiving systems from ESO which are to be sent directly to Paranal 26 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 82 FOR ESO DEV ONLY 8 2 1 ROCON CONFIGURATION Add the following entries to root rhosts localhost root unqualified system name root fully qualified system name root te30 hq eso org root Add the host to the rocon database by running the following command on te30 te304 rocon e 8 2 2 HOME AND SOFTWARE SERVER CONFIGURATION Add the following entries to etc auto_staging server te7 usr server software te7 software vltsccm tel3 vltscem and run the commands root mkdir homelink root s mnt staging server usr server root s mnt staging software software root ln s mnt staging vltsccm vltscem Log in to te7 and add this system to the exports list afterwards running the command te7 exportfs rv Log in to te13 and add this system to the exports list for vltsccm aft2. ISSUE AND MOTD 27 8 2 6 PRINTERS aoe dte 28 82 7 SENDMAIL CONFIGURATION Fwd Ras 29 83 FOR ESO PARANAL AND ESO VCM 29 9 MISCELLANEOUS CONFIGURATION 31 91 ALLOCATING SPACE FOR LOCALLY BASED USERS 31 9 2 REMOVING THE GRAPHICS CONSOLE ORE e n 32 9 3 MANUAE PAGE FIXES tues enmt E EE ERES ENS AE ies 32 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 7 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 PURPOSE The purpose of this manual is to help you install RedHat Linux 9 Operating System on an PC so that the APR2004 Release of VLT Common Software can be installed 12 SCOPE This document covers the following topics in the following order prerequisites including prerequisite information which you must gather before starting the installation configuring the hardware installing and configuring the core operating system e installing applications and patches network configuration site specific configurating principally for within ESO but giving hints for other sites miscellaneous configuration items This document assumes that you are familiar with basic system management activities for Unix sys tems It is not a replacement for the standard RedHat installation documentation The pro
3. following lines 127 0 0 1 localhost localdomain localhost loopback your ip address here your fully qualified hostname hostname Finally connect your system to the network and issue the command root etc init d network stop root etc init d network start After this step your system should be able to access the network You can try pinging its own inter face fist then the default gateway and then some other system using both its IP address and its hostname If something doesn t work as expected double check the files above to verify you entered the cor rect data and issue again the stop start sequence 22 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 6 1 CONFIGURING NETWORK SERVICES 6 1 1 NTP SERVERS root vi etc ntp conf Edit the line referring to te13 hq eso org and insert trhe fully qualified host name of your time server if any server your fully qualified NTP server name version 3 prefer Then check that the date and time are right and adjust if necessary root date Mon Mar 13 11 48 38 CET 2000 root date 03131159 root hwclock systohc utc 6 1 2 SENDMAIL Sendmail is disabled by defaul but to enable periodic outbound queue processing run the following commands root crontab e Add the following crontab entry 0 10 20 30 40 50 usr sbin sendmail 1 If there is no NTP server available on your network skip this section 2 The NT
4. in liai son with your users and network administrators 21 PREREQUISITE HARDWARE A typical confdiguration would be Pentium or Athlon CPU 512 MB of RAM or more 32 MB graphics card or better Radeon VE or Matrox Millennium GX 550 recommended 21 monitor 40 GB hard disk or bigger Microsoft PS 2 Intellimouse Ethernet card or onboard chip DVD ROM drive See http www redhat com docs manuals linux RHL 9 Manual release notes x86 for fur ther details 22 PREREQUISITE COMPUTER MEDIA system installations require the following e ESO VIT Installation Media containing Red Hat Linux 9 1 DVD 2 3 PREREQUISITE DOCUMENTATION Besides this document there are no prerequisite documents This document is distributed as part of the VLT Common Software Documentation Kit both as a paper copy and as a postscript file under doc However you should check for late changes erra ta either by anonymous ftp ftp eso org or on the web http www eso org projects vlt sw dev vltsw 10 2 4 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 PREREQUISITE INFORMATION 2 4 1 BASICS What is the system to be named How many hard disks does the system have attached How much physical memory does the system have In what geographical area will the machine be located Is the system to remain at ESO If yes then at ESO Headquarters Garching If yes then in DEV VCM
5. of attached SCSI devices with their sizes can be obtained with the command grep device var log dmesg 2 Use grep Memory var log dmesg VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 11 For systems elsewhere please consult your local network administrators 12 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 2 4 3 DISK LAYOUT For your information this is the disk layout created by the automated installation filesystem Dell Optiplex GX240 256 Mb RAM 40 Gb HD 2048 Mb Dell Precision 410 2048 Mb Recommendation Your system 6000 Mb 6000 Mb Not less than 5000MD a i vitdata Remaining space Remaining space f more than one recommendation applies select the first lt remaining_space gt 2 system memory EE b It is recommended that all remaining filesystem space on the first disk should be allocated to one partition and then symbolic links should be created to map vlt to diska vlt vltdata to diska vltdata and data to diska da a VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 13 3 CONFIGURING THE HARDWARE 31 CONSOLE It is possible to use a serial terminal as a console but not for the installation Installing a serial con sole is dealt with at the end of this installation manual 14 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 172
6. or elsewhere For systems remaining at ESO Headquarters Garching the following information should be useful VCM machines have their timezone set to UTC offset 0 2 4 2 NETWORK PARAMETERS Is the machine to be attached to a network What will be the machine s IP address What are the subnet masks for the networks on each interface e If there is a default gateway available then what is its name and IP address If the system will use DNS what is the machine s DNS domain name and what the DNS server IP addresses and hostnames e If there is NTP server available on the network what is its name and IP address If there isa DHCP server what is its IP address For systems remaining at ESO Headquarters Garching the following information should be useful All machines are connected to the network IP addresses on Ethernet are assigned by OSC Networks Default gateways outside are lt network_address gt 199 Default gateways in VCM are lt network_address gt 254 e Default gateway names be determined by reverse lookup with nslookup DNS domain is hq eso org DNS servers 134 171 56 56 134 171 8 2 in that order e For DEV systems te13 is the NTP server e For VCM systems wg0acc is the NTP server For systems at ESO Paranal or ESO La Silla please consult local VLT and network administrators 1 If the system already has Red Hat Linux installed on it then a list
7. 00 2009 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 15 4 INSTALLING THE OPERATING SYSTEM 4 1 GOOD NEWS AND A WARNING We provide the full Linux RedHat 9 distribution a 3 CD set and the VLT Common Software on a single DVD R Better yet thanks to Linux kickstart the installation procedure has been largely au tomated and only little user interaction is required WARNING The installation will wipe out the contents of the primay master i e the first disk on the first disk controller even if the disk contains partitions dedicated to different operating sys tems Dual boot systems are indeed possible but are outside the scope of this installation procedure Hint just press enter at the boot prompt and go through the steps for a manual installation Issue 2 of this document describes Red Hat Linux 7 3 but can still be used as reference 42 BOOTING Ensure that the BIOS is set to search for boot media in the sequence floppies CD ROM hard disks Also make sure your computer is NOT connected to the network at this stage Insert the Red Hat Linux 9 Installation DVD R If the system is off then power it on otherwise run the commands rootf sync sync sync reboot At the Welcome to Red Hat Linux 9 screen when prompted boot type linux ks cdrom isolinux ks up cfg for systems with single CPU Or linux ks cdrom isolinux ks smp cfg for systems with tw
8. EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY Organisation Europ enne pour des Recherches Astronomiques dans l H misph re Austral Europ ische Organisation f r astronomische Forschung in der s dlichen Hemisph re VERY LARGE TELESCOPE VLT Common Software E Linux Installation Manual Doc No VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 Issue 3 L Date 26 03 2004 Pi 26 03 2004 Prepared DI e iii Name Date Signature E Allaert Approved a O O E Name Date Signature M Cull Released Vm sey PRO IE RI IA IO CRA Name Date Signature VLT PROGRAMME TELEPHONE 49 89 32006 0 FAX 49 89 320 2362 2 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 The information contained in this manual is intended to be used in the ESO VLT project by ESO and authorized external contractors only While every precaution has been taken in the development of the software and in the preparation of this documentation ESO assumes no responsibilities for errors or omissions or for damage resulting from the use of the software or of the information contained herein VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 3 Change Record Issue Rev Date Section Page affected Reason Initiation Document Remarks 1 0 14 03 2000 All Draft not for release DRAFT 1 1 20 10 2000 All Draft not for release DRAFT 2 14 03 2003 All Official release
9. P daemon will die shortly after startup if the clock is already too much adrift 3 Within ESO this is obligatory VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 23 7 CONFIGURING THE VLT COMMON SOFTWARE Be sure the network has been configured the system is working properly and the system has been rebooted at least once Use the CTRL ALT F1 combination to switch to the first text only console and login as root the password has been set to root4u root su pecsmgr bash 2 05b cd releases 000 etc locality bash 2 05b apps hostname env apps hostname env Then add the following line at the very bottom of apps hostname env the shell will subsitute hostname with the actual hostname of your computer so the file will be called something like apps te101 env export export SOFTWARE ROOTS ACC_HOST hostname Once this is done you can become root again and setup the accounts for the users vltmgr and vlt as follows root su vltmgr bash 2 05b PECS ROOTDIR etc pecs just press ENTER PECS RELEASE 000 just press ENTER Do you wish to install VUE support files y type n and press ENTER root su vlt bash 2 05b etc pecs bin pecssh mklinks i PECS ROOTDIR etc pecs just press ENTER PECS RELEASE 000 just press ENTER Do you wish to install VUE support files y type n and press ENTER While you re at it pick up
10. T F1 combination to switch to the first text only console and login as root the password has been set to root4u Verify that your system has booted with an SMP kernel and that more than one CPU is actually in use for instance checking with top then follow these instructions root cd usr src linux 2 4 include linux root cp p msg h msg h orig root vi msg h Change line 60 so that MSGSSZ is set to 64 define MSGSSZ 64 message segment size Save and exit then type the following commands root cd usr src linux 2 4 root rm f config root make mrproper root make oldconfig root make dep root make clean root make bzImage root make modules root make modules_install root make install 18 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 After the previous steps have been completed edit etc lilo conf so that it knows about the custom kernel Change line 3 from default linux to default linux custom Change line 11 from label 2 4 20 28 9cust to label linux custom Now tell about the custom kernel but first be sure to run in test mode by typing root sbin lilo t The output might look like this Added linux Added linux custom The boot sector and the map file have NOT been altered If no errors are reported you can run lilo for real root sbin lilo The output might look like this Added linux Added linux custom The at the
11. V ER VIEW e oec pe wee CR ee ACC ON 15 4 4 MULTIPROCESSOR ONLY KERNEL 17 5 INSTALLING APPLICATIONS AND PATCHES 19 51 INSTALLING UNLICENSED 65 19 52 INSTALLING LICENSED APPLICATIONS decid ret Re rta 19 5 9 INSTALLING PATCHES icp tnd oop ekg ob Heed He ROS ira E PRA 19 534 RH RECOMMENDED PATCH BUNDLE 4 53 19 6 NETWORK CONFIGURATION 21 6 1 CONFIGURING NETWORK 22 2NIESBRVBERS5 euet o tmr ler et ex rte 22 6 12 SENDMAIL 5 Ta Ex Rd ac tua 22 7 CONFIGURING THE VLT COMMON SOFTWARE 23 8 SITE SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION 25 81 FOR CONSORTIA AND OTHER EXTERNAL INSTITUTES 25 Sil SAC CBSS CEET ee Ee oe i a en 25 812 ADDING USERS AND USER 5 25 82 HOR ESO DEV ONLY SL Lie Eos Ee de Vus 26 82 1 ROCON CONFIGURATION ek coo t o EE 26 82 2 HOME AND SOFTWARE SERVER 26 6 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 82 3 UPDATING AUTOMATED ROOT CRONTAB DISTRIBUTION 27 824 ROOT USER CONFIGURATION 52 292 ee tata gas eis 27 82 5
12. a password for both vltmgr and vlt using the commands root passwd vltmgr follow the prompts root passwd vlt follow the prompts Finally complete the directory structure as vltmgr sample vltmgr 21 gt diska INSTALL sample vltmgr 22 gt buildVLTROOT 24 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 Then type the following commands as root root cd vltdata tmp root touch logFile logAuto root chmod 666 logFile logAuto root chown vlt vlt logFile logAuto root kill HUP cat var run syslogd pid root logger p locall warning This is a test and verify that This is a test has been added to vltdata tmp logFile Finally create a crontab for the user vlt vlt 3 gt crontab e Enter the following on a single line 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 bash c HOME bashrc log VLTBackup vlt vlt 12 1000000 save exit and verify the crontab as been entered correctly vlt 4 gt crontab 1 DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE edit the master and reinstall tmp crontab 4297 installed on Mon Apr 26 09 15 32 2004 Cron version Id crontab c v 2 13 1994 01 17 03 20 37 vixie Exp 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 bash c HOME bashrc log VLTBackup vlt vlt 12 1000000 This complete a fairly basic setup of APR2004 VLT Common Software on your computer running Linux Red Hat 9 However it s strongly recommended that you refer
13. ations and acronyms are explained either in footnotes or in the glossary Certain sections of the installation procedure are optional All such sections are identified as such in footnotes and explanations are provided as the circumstances under which it should be completed Courier font is used to indicate text displayed by or to be entered into the system Roman font is used to show displayed text bold font for entered text selected text or window buttons Italicized text in angled brackets indicates placeholders or descriptions of fields Unix prompts indicate the login of the person a command should be run as These prompts end with a hash dollar or percent sign to indicate root login id Bourne shell or C shell T C shell shells respectively e g root pwd sbin init d root echo lt your_name gt lt your_name gt root 1 6 FEEDBACK If you experience problems using this document please let us know using one of the contact meth ods described in document VLT SW Problem Report amp Change Request User Manual VLT MAN ESO 17200 0981 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 9 2 PREREQUISITES Please use this section as a checklist make sure you have compliant hardware make sure you have copies of the required computer media and note down the information that will be required later on some of which you will be able to decide yourself and some of which you must decide
14. cedure has been tested on the following models Dell Optiplex GX110 Dell Optiplex GX150 Dell Optiplex GX240 Dell Optiplex GX260 Dell Precision 650 Dell Poweredge 2650 server Dell Latitude C810 laptop Many more hardware combinations are likely to work as well the only problematic areas being un supported graphics cards and network adaptors for which you will have to dowload and install up to date drivers Unfortunately Although a certain level of flexibility in install time configuration is attempted in this document it is not feasible to support every conceivable combination of hardware and peripherals so you are strongly advised to read through this document thoroughly to familiarize yourself with the steps and with your own setup 1 3 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS VLT MAN ESO 17200 0981 VLT SW Problem Report amp Change Request User Manual VLT MAN ESO 17200 0642 VLT Common Software Installation Manual 1 Red Hat Linux installation documentation is available from http www redhat com support manuals 8 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 1 4 GLOSSARY DNS Domain Name System A distributed hierarchical system for resolving hostnames into IP addresses NTP Network Time Protocol A standard defined to facilitate accurate time synchronization across a net work either in hierarchical or peer to peer fashion 1 5 STYLISTIC CONVENTIONS VLT Common Software specific abbrevi
15. end of the last line means that linux custom is the default kernel exactly what we want Finally reboot your system and verify the custom kernel is working VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 19 5 INSTALLING APPLICATIONS AND PATCHES 5 1 INSTALLING UNLICENSED APPLICATIONS There are no unlicensed applications to install 5 2 INSTALLING LICENSED APPLICATIONS There are no licensed applications to install 5 3 INSTALLING PATCHES 5 3 1 RH RECOMMENDED PATCH BUNDLE There is no RedHat recommended patch bundle to install 20 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 21 6 NETWORK CONFIGURATION Use the CTRL ALT F1 combination to switch to the first text only console and login as root the password has been set to root4u Edit etc sysconfig network and change HOSTNAME to the correct hostname for your system and GATEWAY to the IP address of your default gateway Note that the hostname MUST NOT in clude the domain name e g te13 and not te13 hq eso org Edit etc sysconfig network scripts ifcfg eth0 and change IPADDR to the IP address assigned to this computer Edit etc resolv conf and change the search line so that includes your domain name e g hq eso org and nameserver contains the correct IP address for your DNS server Edit etc hosts to have at least the two
16. erwards running the com mand tel3 exportfs av Some Redhat Linux system uids and gids clash with non system uids and gids in user at ESO Cur rently it is considerably easier to change the Linux box than to change the rest of ESO Therefore on the box run the following commands to find all files currently belonging to the users and groups whose uids and gids clash root find diska xdev group ftp o group users tee tmp log This should return an empty list since a new machine does not have any files belonging to these ids In that case it remains only to change the definitions of these users and groups in the passwd file root perl pi e s 50 51 etc group root perl pi e s 100 103 etc group VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 27 Finally distribute the passwords from the password server te30 update_nonis_slaves p g a v r te30 usr server src src distribution passwd prog te30 remsh lt system name gt mv usr bin passwd usr bin passwd orig te30 rm f control te30 vi Makefile and add this system to the Makefile Then run te30 make 8 2 3 UPDATING AUTOMATED ROOT CRONTAB DISTRIBUTION Log in to te30 and run te30 cd usr server src src distribution crontab_root te30 cp te7 crontab lt name_of_system gt crontab te30 vi lt name_of_system gt crontab and edit the file to suit local needs Then run te30 vi Makefi
17. for Linux RedHat 7 3 3 26 03 2004 All APR2004 Revised for Linux RedHat 9 4 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 5 1 INTRODUCTION 7 Ts PURPOSE rari RR UR eA EHE _ ada cee 7 1 22 SCOPRE suina eI REL SR la osi i i UI 7 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS 45530 e e i ex cia ER a 7 lk GEOSSAR Ya ario Kee pq bes 8 e Sales o NER Vo ote a 8 L6 uen Rae ei Ri CUR ES elio SO Es 8 2 PREREQUISITES 9 21 PREREQUISITE HARDWARE 9 22 PREREQUISITE COMPUTER MEDIA eh geht de cia vel seed 9 22 PREREQUISITE DOCUMENTAZIONI 445 5 este ea bea 9 24 PREREQUISITE INFORMATION mace guae eR Bernd dae Bea a 10 DAT o dea che p ale cee vo dp n rV P dated eed qu eges 10 2 4 2 NETWORK 00 10 24 3 DISK LAYOUT ss Pera Peace NOn 12 3 CONFIGURING THE HARDWARE 13 cen S e PR ES 13 4 INSTALLING THE OPERATING SYSTEM 15 41 GOOD NEWS AND A WARNING ein owes Si vew eee Oye ee D xa He de s 15 4 2 SOOT soli V pee Vr MICRO 15 49 TNS TALIA TION O
18. inux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 29 8 2 7 SENDMAIL CONFIGURATION The system has already been configured not to relay mail and to flush the mail queue periodically The ESO DEV machines require this in order to relay vital sys admin information via mail There remains only to configure the system to route mail via ESO s mail hub To do this run the following commands on te30 te304 rcp etc mail sendmail cf system name gt etc and then on the local system edit the file with the command root vi etc sendmail cf and change usr spool mqueue to var spool mqueue Then run root touch etc aliases rootf newaliases root sendmail bs 220 lt fully_qualified_hostname gt quit 221 lt fully_qualified_hostname gt closing connection and verify that the fully qualified hostname is displayed 83 FOR ESO PARANAL AND ESO VCM ONLY There is currently no special configuration for Paranal or VCM 1 This includes systems bound for Paranal via consortia or other external institutes 30 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 31 9 MISCELLANEOUS CONFIGURATION 9 1 ALLOCATING SPACE FOR LOCALLY BASED USERS Space for new users home directories can be allocated as follows root for DISK in disk do gt mkdir DISK home gt done 32 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Ma
19. le and add an entry for this system to the file and then run te30 touch lt name_of_system gt crontab te30 make 8 2 4 ROOT USER CONFIGURATION Run the following commands root mkdir root bin root vi root profile and add the following the bottom of root s profile PATH HOME bin PATH usr server bin usr server sbin MANPATH MANPATH usr server man 8 2 5 ISSUE AND MOTD CONFIGURATION Comment out the code which overwrites etc issue at the bottom of etc rc d rc local Modify the pre login message file with the command root rm etc issue net root ln s etc issue etc issue net On te30 run 28 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 te30 usr server src src distribution issue te30 touch lt system_name gt issue te30 vi Makefile and add the name of the system to the file Then run te30 make te30 usr server src src distribution motd te30 touch system name gt motd te30 vi Makefile and add the name of the system to the file Then run te30 make Then on the system being installed run root vi etc rc d rc local and comment out the code which overwrites etc issue at the bottom of the script To make effective the changes listed in this section so far now reboot the system with the command root sync sync sync reboot 8 2 6 PRINTERS On te30 as root run te30 addprn system name all VLT Common Software L
20. nual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 92 REMOVING THE GRAPHICS CONSOLE Add the following line to the global section of etc lilo conf serial 0 9600n8 Add the following line to the default image section of etc lilo conf append older stuff is here console ttyS0 9600N1 and then run the commands root lilo root rm etc ioctl save Then edit the file etc X11 gdm gdm conf comment out the 0 entry in the servers section and set Enable 1 in the xdmcp section Add the following entry at the bottom of etc inittab S1 2345 respawn sbin agetty ttyS0 9600 vt100 Make sure the console is switched to a text screen use lt CTRL ALT F1 gt if it isn t Attach the serial console and reboot using lt CTRL ALT DEL gt 9 3 MANUAL PAGE FIXES Generate the whatis database so that the apropos command works with the command root makewhatis Finally to make the changes in this section effective reboot the system with root sync root sync root sync root reboot 1 Complete this section if you wish to add an ASCII terminal or terminal server as a console instead pf the graphics screen and keyboard
21. o or more CPUs 4 3 INSTALLATION OVERVIEW The command above is all you need to install Linux Red Hat 9 on your computer but here s an overview of what goes on behind the scenes The first hard disk is partitioned 6 GB for 1 GB for swap the rest for diska All the packages in the distribution get installed A few standard services are enabled e g telnet rlogin rexec rsh ftp etc Acustom VLT compliant kernel is recompiled The VLT Common Software binaries get installed If at any time during the installation especially while the kernel is being recompiled or the VLT Common Sofware binaries extracted the graphical user interface seems to be frozen you can use the combinations CTRL ALT F1 CTRL ALT F2 CTRL ALT F3 etc to switch to one of the con soles and ALT F7 no CTRL required to go back to the graphical user interface 16 VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 Note 1 Your system will reboot at the end of the installation process be sure to be around to re move the DVD R from the DVD ROM drive Note 2 Don t worry if booting will take longer than usual this will be fixed once the network has been set up properly VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 17 4 4 MULTIPROCESSOR ONLY KERNEL CONFIGURATION After the system has booted for the first time it s time to compile a customized SMP kernel Use the CTRL AL
22. to the latest VLT Common Software Installation Manual VLT MAN ESO 17200 0642 While the section about compilig the software itself is not relevant for you the chapters about verification and configuration are likely to require your attention VLT Common Software Linux Installation Manual 3 VLT MAN ESO 17200 2009 25 8 SITE SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION 8 1 FOR CONSORTIA AND OTHER EXTERNAL INSTITUTES ONLY Site specific configuration for external sites is obviously somewhat beyond the scope of this docu ment However what follows in this section and the sections dedicated to site specific configura tion within ESO may be useful If you are unsure what to do then seek help from your local Unix systems administrators 8 1 1 ACCESS TO NFS SERVERS If there are central software repositories available on your network then you will need to alter ei ther etc fstab for permanent NFS mounts or etc auto_master and etc auto_direct for auto mounted NFS mounts These are probably best copied and carefully merged from a similar system within the same group at your site Remember to update remote systems exports lists and re export everything 8 1 2 ADDING USERS AND USER ENVIRONMENTS Since NIS has not been configured the easiest way to create a large amount of accounts is to copy the relevant files from another system This you can do either with ftp or remsh with a suitable rho sts entry on the other system Files to consider are
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